Posted by
James Burns on Monday, October 27, 2008 1:59:55 PM
Listening to Barack Obama make his "closing arguments" in Canton Ohio today I realized something. He is proposing nothing new, but rather proposing something that has been done already.
Back in the late 60's and early 70's government was the largest it had ever been. More social programs, hand outs etc. It started with the civil rights movement, which I will state was needed, but was done wrong in many ways. A lot of programs we see today came out of that time in our nations history. Our government at that time was set on giving away the farm to form equality. What did this do? It bred a whole generation of people living on government funded programs and entitlements. These entitlements were supposed to help bring people up and allow them to be successful, but rather kept the very people who were benefiting from these programs stay down. If you give someone something for nothing why work? This led to a mentality of I can live for free and not work. If I keep popping out kids I can stay on welfare and get a check. I remember growing up and watching people on welfare drive nicer cars than we did and my dad and mom both worked good jobs. These programs were originally designed to assist people to make there lives better and move ahead. Instead people made a living out of them and their kids learned the same things.
In the 1980's and 1990's these programs started getting cut back. Bill Clinton brought sweeping welfare reforms which is one of the few good things he did. He didn't want someone making a living on welfare. He was willing to help people and give a hand up, not a hand out. Barack Obama now wants to go back to the hand out philosophy. Giving people something for nothing. So here he is saying he is for change, but he wants to change back, not to Reagan, or Carter, but rather to Kennedy and Johnson. To the days of the Great Society. We all who we're alive then know how well that worked. So he really is not pushing for a new change, but an old failed change.